Saturday, 30 April 2011

Friday, 29 April 2011

There are several trees scattered across the Park Fields. There is, of course, the oak we saw yesterday (and a couple more) and there are four magnificent lime trees like the one above. The London plane (left) was trained to provide perching places for hawks.

Thursday, 28 April 2011

I go under the stile out of the wood, the Boss goes over it, and we are into the Park fields. Luckily, those cows under the oak tree are in a different field from us. The Boss says they are OK but I'm not sure about cows.

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

I don't know if it's me or the Boss who is such a creature of habit, but we have a regular walk when we are on the farm at Brockley. We go across the paddock and through the wood to the Park Fields. The wood is full of wild garlic which was in full bloom last weekend.

Friday, 22 April 2011

Thursday, 21 April 2011

There seem to be more and more "professional" dog walkers around town. The council had intended bringing in a bye-law restricting the number of dogs walked by one person to no more than six at a time. Whether or not that is in force I have no idea. How many dogs here?

Sunday, 10 April 2011

Saturday, 9 April 2011

This long distance footpath runs between Peterfield in Hampshire and Beachy Head in East Sussex, a distance of about 100 miles. We sometimes walk short stretches of it, like this one between Ditchling Beacon and the Clayton windmills. It is a very popular path and can get a bit crowded. When we were there the other day there were several groups of teenagers who were presumably doing their Duke of Edinburgh's Award. No sooner had one lot passed us round the bend than another appeared over the brow of the hill.